United Nations: allocate $ 7 million small agricultural projects in Dhi Qar

United Nations: allocate $ 7 million small agricultural projects in Dhi Qar

07/03/2017 (21:01 pm) - The number of readings: 94 - Issue (3871)

Dhi Qar

Detecting the first deputy governor of Dhi Qar just Aldechala, the allocation of $ 7 million from the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations to support small peasants across the administrative units to maintain projects, 40% of them to women projects.

He said the first deputy governor of Dhi Qar just Aldechala, in an interview (to the extent), this is volitional customization aims to improve the standard of living and agricultural production and the development of infrastructure and support for small farmers projects and the development of irrigation projects, "stressing that the implementation of the projects will be under the supervision of the local government and the International Fund, The projects covered by the support is building greenhouses and beehives and fields of animal husbandry and agricultural and other projects within the program of support for the peasants. "

Aldechala confirmed that a delegation from the International Fund for Agricultural Development discussed with him last Monday, the development of the agricultural sector and support marketing capabilities for small farmers project and rural development and improving the standard of living and agricultural production.

It is noteworthy that the local government in Dhi Qar loaded (in the middle of December, the last in 2016), the Ministry of Agriculture and the federal government, is responsible for the worsening problems in the agricultural sector, warning not to deal seriously with the agricultural sector's problems, which have cast a shadow on the overall economic situation of the peasants.

She stressed the peasant associations in Dhi Qar, in (the eighth of December, the last in 2016), the "deficit" of farmers to compete with imported product as a result of the current agricultural policy, and pointed to the suffering of the peasants as a result of the scarcity of water levels and volatility, while the High Agricultural Committee to maintain Baghdad accused b "monopoly" land file management and causing major financial crisis for farmers, water resources department has called for the application of modern irrigation systems to avoid water scarcity.

The Agriculture Department of Dhi Qar, announced in (the fifth of October 2016), an increase in cultivated areas within the agricultural plan for the winter season by 438 thousand acres, indicating that the plan has achieved an increase of more than 50 thousand acres greenery planted crop of wheat, and it seeks to achieve security Agricultural food within the plan.

It confirms specialists "deficit" of peasants in the province of Dhi Qar to compete with the imported product as a result of the current agricultural policy, due to the scarcity of water levels and volatility, while the High Agricultural Committee to maintain accuses Baghdad of "monopoly" land file management and causing major financial crisis for farmers, calling circle water resources to the application of modern irrigation systems to avoid water scarcity.